Catherine E. Myers, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark

Co-Director, Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers-Newark

Editor-in-Chief, Memory Loss and the Brain newsletter

Research Overview

• Computational Neuroscience. Neural network models of the role of various brain regions in learning and memory, especially the hippocampus, basal forebrain and associated areas.
• Experimental Neuropsychology of Learning and Memory. Determining what specific kinds of memory are impaired (and spared) in individuals with memory impairments due to injury or disease. A particular focus is development of simple behavioral assessments to diagnose whether specific brain regions have been affected by injury or disease, and development of simple tests to predict risk for developing Alzheimer's disease in nondemented elderly individuals.

Selected Recent Publications

• Myers, C., Shohamy, D., and others (2003). Dissociating medial temporal and basal ganglia memory systems with a latent learning task. Neuropsychologia, 41:1919-1928.

• Myers, C., Shohamy, D., and others (2003). Dissociating hippocampal vs. basal ganglia contributions to learning and transfer. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(2), 185-193.
• Myers, C., Kluger, A., and others (2002). Hippocampal atrophy disrupts transfer generalization in nondemented elderly. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 15, 82-90.

• Myers, C., DeLuca, J., and others (2001). Impaired delay eyeblink classical conditioning in individuals with anterograde amnesia resulting from anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115(3), 560-570.

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